Flying Saucer Review January 1977 [antikvár]

Editor CHARLES BOWENConsuitantsGORDON CREIGHTON, MA, FRAI, FRGS, FRASC, MAXWELL CADE, AlnstP, FRAS, AFRAeS, CEng, FIEE, FIEREBERNARD E. FINCH, MRCS, LRCP, DCh, FBISCHARLES H. GIBBS-SMITH, MA, FMA, Hon Companion RAeS, FRSA R. H. B. WINDER, BSc, CEng, FIMech E PERCY HENNELL. FIBP I. GRATTAN-GUINNESS, MA, MSc, PhD JONATHAN M. CAPLAN, MA Overseas J. ALLEN HYNEK, PhDAIME MICHELBERTHOLD E. SCHWARZ, MDAssistant Editor EILEEN BUCKLEAn international journal devoted to the study of Unidentified Flying ObjectsVol.23, No. 4 (published January 1978)CONTENTSUFOs and Solid Lightin Dorset:Leslie Harris 3UFO and Entity inMorayshire:Jenny Randies 7The Man-in-Blacksyndrome:Dr. B.E. Schwarz9Probing into other dimensions(Book Review):Eileen Buckle 15More on the Coynehelicopter case:Jennie Zeidman 16A Russian "Jellyfish": .Gordon Creighton 19Close Encounters of theReligious Kind:John A. Keel 21Bizarre 1954 Car Crash:M.G.Westwood 23CEII atThaxted:Andrew Collins 25Talks with Betty Hill-3:Dr. B.E. Schwarz 28Strange object nearChildren's Home:Jenny Randies 31Mail Bag 32Thaxted encounter:vehicle examination:Barry M. King iv((') FSR Publications Ltd.Contributions appearing in this.magazine do not necessarilyreflect its policy and arepublished without prejudice^ For subscription details andfl address see foot of' page ii of coverSPIELBERG'S UFOs ARRIVEY^ITH only a handful of film reviews in America and British magazinesand newspapers to lean on, we nevertheless venture to welcome film-director Steven Spielberg's UFOs which, at long last, have arrived on the American filmgoer's scene. In other words, at the time of writing, Qose Encounters of the Third Kind has hit the silver screens. A science-fiction film certainly, but one with a difference, for its director is the young genius who presented Jaws to the world, and surely everyone knows what that did to the box-office records.We read that Columbia Pictures and EMI, with the help of a few others, have financed the new epic to the tune of il8 million, and with so much at stake, their hot property was the subject of a vast security operation. Everything was kept under tightly-laced wraps until the launching pad was ready.It so happened that Flying Saucer Review played a small part in the public relations campaign. Your editor was aware of a faint whisper about some movie being made while visiting the United States in April/ May 1976, but paid little attention to it; he had no idea it was a brainchild of Mr. Spielberg. Then in June of that year he was invited to visit the Columbia Pictures office in London where he was told officially about the film and its name, learned that shooting was completed and that editing was in progress. Not a word of the plot was disclosed, but your editor was asked to take part in the opening publicity sallies by preparing a piece about the film which would precede the onset of the major publicity. For this purpose an editorial leader was chosen as the vehicle (see FSR Vol.22, No.3).With all this expenditure at stake, and with all the security, small wonder people in the trade became at bit edgy. We gather that when a showing of the film was tried out in Dallas, Texas, a couple of uninvited reporters found a way in; one of them produced a "knocking" sneak preview and Columbia stock took a tumble on Wall Street. Fortunately for the movie-makers' ulcers, however. Time came up with a very favourable review and all was well again.Steven Speilberg describes his story as an "adventure thriller" in the Hitchcock mould rather than science fiction and with all the available literature and J. Allen Hynek to consult, no wonder it is said he has extrapolated with care the most respectable UFO data. Yet we are told the movie's power derives from " the human reality that underlies the whole saucer phenomenon." (Newsweek - Jack Kroll - November 21, 1977.) The same reviewer declares that Close Encounters " is the friendliest, warmest S.F. epic you've ever seen. It brings the heavens down to earth."Basically very basically the story revolves around Roy Neary, a povver-company worker who, while investigating a power failure, is subjected to all maimer of "psychic" and electromagnetic effects when driving his truck. Roy believes that he has had an encounter with alien entities but, when he wants to describe his experience, no one believes